Malthus and his work

by James Bonar

[510]. See below, chs. ii. and iii.

[511]. The expression of Grenville in a letter to Pitt, 1800. See Stanhope, Life of Pitt, ii. 371.

[512]. Unless perhaps Mr. Bagehot’s. Col. Thompson understood the theory of population only in its cruder form. In answer 337 of the Catechism (1839) he meets the objection that free trade would only increase population by saying: “No man has a right to prevent us running a constant race with hunger if we can.”

[513]. Grounds, &c., p. 46 n.

[514]. Ibid., pp. 3, 11, 12,

[515]. Ibid., pp. 30, 33.

[516]. Ricardo, Works, p. 33[8?]5 (MacC.’s ed.). For remarks on this part of Malthus’ tract see ibid., p. 382.

[517]. Grounds, &c., p. 36 n. Cf. Ricardo, p. 390.

[518]. See above, p. 211.

[519]. Pol. Econ., ch. iii. sect. i. p. 134 (1820).